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HOME : rufwork 2011 Editor's Note: Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, is an expert on Chinese domestic and foreign policy, and U.S. By Elizabeth Economy and Adam Segal, CFR.org If there were one word to describe Asia in 2011, it would likely be tremors—not only the physical ones that devastated Japan, but also the political ones that reverberated throughout the region shaking India, China, and Thailand, waking up Burma, and further unsettling North Korea. 1. After a stroke in 2008 and years of poor health, Kim Jung-il was not long for this world. Ingénieries de la sérendipité. Cela ressemble à de la sérendipité, ça à la goût de la sérendipité ... mais ce n'est pas nécessairement de la sérendipité. Historiquement, c'est Google qui fut le premier moteur de recherche à instrumentaliser un processus de fortuité, via le bouton "Feeling Lucky" (lequel n'a d'ailleurs rien à voir avec une quelconque sérendipité littérale, puisque ledit bouton se contente de vous amener sur le premier résultat renvoyé par le moteur de recherche). Comme nous l'expliquions en détail dans ce remarquable article co-écrit avec mes excellents collègues (:-), ce bouton est avant tout un argument marketing et un élément fondateur de la sémiotique Googléenne. 1998 : Sérendipité année zéro. Basiquement, la sérendipité désigne la capacité à trouver des informations qui n'étaient pas celles que l'on recherchait initialement mais qui vont cependant s'avérer utile pour résoudre le problème ou la question à l'origine de notre recherche, ou d'une recherche/d'un problème antérieur. Sérendipité et SIC.
Seminario Atlántico de Pensamiento » La ciudad azul Comenzaré mi exposición sobre lo que he denominado “la ciudad azul” con unos pocos datos de referencia, de sobra conocidos, pero que permitirán acotar el contexto de esta idea de ciudad. La franja tropical/subtropical ha experimentado profundas mutaciones en los últimos treinta años, tanto demográficas como económicas. A principios de siglo ni una sola de las diez ciudades más habitadas del planeta estaba en el trópico (Tokio, entonces la séptima ciudad, con millón y medio de habitantes, sería la excepción si hablásemos también de la región subtropical). Hoy si buscamos las diez ciudades más populosas del planeta tan solo encontraremos Moscú fuera del cinturón tropical (si nos extendemos a las veinte mayores ciudades) encontramos también, en los puestos dieciséis y dieciocho Nueva York y Londres. Si en vez de ciudades buscásemos áreas metropolitanas los resultados variarían poco; solo quedaría incluida el área de New York-New Jersey entre las diez primeras). Conclusión
TEDxSF - A Curation Of People And Ideas... Posted by Tom Foremski - June 5, 2011 I've been to several TEDxSF events but the most recent one felt like a breakthrough event because of the mix of people and talks, plus the new venue. The event was sold out with about 650 tickets for the Yerba Buena location, a larger theater than the Academy of Sciences, where it used to be held. The mix of people was eclectic as always. There were at least two or three talks where I wished for the return of the old Vaudeville stage hook, or maybe a remote controlled trapdoor. But it was a packed afternoon, from noon to 6pm, a bit too long. TED talks are a form of modern theater within an old school format in that it's a one-way stage. However, the formulaic format of TED talks is pretty good, so maybe the organizers know not to mess with what works. Among the standout performances: - Dr. - Eythor Bender and his eLEGS exoskeletons, he showed a woman paralyzed from the waist down walking onto the stage. Simon Mainwaring. Events | TEDxSF Prior events:
Archiving a Landscape | American Craft Council “For the soul, then, beauty is not defined as pleasantness of form but rather as the quality in things that invites absorption and contemplation.” ~Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul My work was born of a place. Specifically, it was born of a dry, hard-scrabble landscape surrounding a house on a hill off of a dirt road in Gallup, New Mexico, where I spent my formative years. As a child, I wandered and memorized that landscape, finding perfect sandstone perches, observing as fallen cactus limbs slowly evolved into dried, lacy skeletons, squeezing unearthed coal in hopes of making diamonds, taking in the smell of juniper and wet dirt after a quick downpour. Careful observation of natural forms in their habitats has been a long-standing personal occupation and fascination, and these observations form the basis for my work. On close examination, what might have otherwise been overlooked can become an object of wonder and poetry. I currently live in Ojai, California.
online graphical dictionary and thesaurus Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. It's a dictionary! Visuwords™ uses Princeton University’s WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. The Visuwords™ Interface To use the applet you only need to type a word into the search query at the top of the page and press 'Enter'. You can zoom the model in and out by rolling the wheel on your mouse. Understanding the links between Synsets "is a kind of" — hyponym/hypernym pair With regards to "wheat" and "grain", we see a cyan link from "wheat" pointing towards "grain" we can understand this to mean that wheat "is a kind of" grain.